Compat 52

[kzk]

hi, seems like majority of Fluentd+PHP users are suffered from using PHP 5.2 or older. Could you apply this branch to master?

[chobie]

You know PHP 5.2 series is not supported anymore. So merging compat-52 branch to master is tough issue.

for 5.3 users:

pros: nothing
cons:

• if I accepted this PR. then current user have to change their application. so I won't accept this.
• this PR breaks PSR-0 style naming. actucally it's not a big ploblem. but this makes above issue.
  • https://github.com/php-fig/fig-standards/blob/master/accepted/PSR-0.md

Specifically,

5.3 users could omit prefixes when useing use statement.

<?php
use Fluent\Logger;

$logger = FluentLogger::open()

compat-52 style can not omit class name. some people doesn't like this.

<?php

$logger = Fluent_Logger_FluentLogger::open()

for 5.2 users:

pros:

• easy to use. just git clone.

but this also could 'git clone --branch=compat-52 https://github.com/fluent/fluent-logger-php.git'

cons: nothing

but I know many PHP5.2 application still provides good services. so we can choose these choices.

• A: Don't change default branch. adding 'git clone --branch=compat-52 https://github.com/fluent/fluent-logger-php.git' to README
• B: Change default branch to compat-52. and adding note to 5.3 users.

most 5.3 users use composer to manage dependencies. I guess this solution is less impact to current user.

• C: Change major version and merge this.

@sotarok what do you think about this issue?

[DQNEO]

@kzk Hello I become a new maintainer of this project.

Now in 2015, PHP 5.2 and 5.3 are already EOL
http://php.net/eol.php

So I suppose there is no need to maintain this branch.
I made a tag to save this tree for someone who wants to get this.
https://github.com/fluent/fluent-logger-php/releases/tag/php52

Thank you for your contributions.